Brew No.5 – Coopers Pale Ale

RATING: 3/5 STARS

I have brewed a couple of Pale Ale’s before and I loved them. Even though this was another kit I wanted to try something a little different and brewed the following:

• Coopers Pale Ale Can
• 500g LDME
• 500g raw sugar
• 14g Goldings hops (Tea bag dropped in at Ferment)
• Safale yeast

Fermented at around 10 days then bottled in PET with carb drops on 14 June 2008.

Tasting Notes
I have made this recipe once before with POR hops which I believe made the pale ale brilliant. This was confirmed when I tasted this beer at around 3 weeks in the bottle. Not nearly enough hops for my taste, which makes sense as the POR has an AA rating of 9 and the golding only 5. Again I found this one a bit “green” at 5 weeks, but I also think this was due to the cold weather and longer secondary ferment in the bottle.

I am drinking this brew again now as I type and it has improved dramatically at 4-5 weeks, and believe in a couple more weeks it will be pretty good. AS mentioned a little more hop aroma would have been good, and will def. use POR again next time